March 7, 2012 Michael Braukus Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1979 michael.j.braukus@nasa.gov Keith Koehler Wallops Flight Facility, Va. 757-824-1579 keith.a.koehler@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-074 NASA SIGNS AGREEMENT WITH BERMUDA FOR TRACKING STATION WASHINGTON -- NASA and the government of Bermuda signed an agreement today to establish a temporary mobile tracking station on Cooper's Island to support launches from the agency's Wallo ...Continue Reading

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 1868 Issue Time: 2012 Mar 07 2145 UTC CONTINUED ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Continuation of Serial Number: 1867 Begin Time: 2012 Mar 02 1425 UTC Yesterday Maximum 2MeV Flux: 1228 pfu NOAA Space Weather Scale descriptions can be found at www.swpc.noaa.gov/NOAAscales Potential Impacts: Satellite systems may experience significant charging resulting in increased risk to satellite systems.Thank you for using the Product Subscription Ser ...Continue Reading

Mar. 7, 2012 Bob Jacobs Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1600 bob.jacobs@nasa.gov John Yembrick Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-2065 john.yembrick-1@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-073 NASA TWEETUPS ARE EVOLVING. IT'S TIME TO BE MORE SOCIAL WASHINGTON -- NASA is expanding its successful program of Tweetups to include more social media platforms, broadening the agency's use of social media to engage audiences about the agency's mission of e ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FLOODS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FLOODING IN SOUTHEASTERN AUSTRALIA Severe flooding affected multiple communities along Australia's Queensland-New South Wales border in February 2012. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=77325&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from Mar 05, 2012 (Posted on Mar 06, 2012 4:03 PM) -------------------------------------- ...Continue Reading

March 7, 2012 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov DC Agle Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-393-9011 agle@jpl.nasa.gov Caroline McCall Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 617-253-1682 cmcall5@mit.edu RELEASE: 12-070 NASA'S TWIN GRAIL SPACECRAFT BEGIN COLLECTING LUNAR SCIENCE DATA WASHINGTON -- NASA's Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft orbiting the moon officially have begun their science collection phase. ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2012 Mar 07 0030 UTC # Prepared jointly by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, # Space Weather Prediction Center and the U.S. Air Force. # Joint USAF/NOAA Solar Region Summary SRS Number 67 Issued at 0030Z on 07 Mar 2012 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 06 Mar I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 06/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1423 N18W90 058 0030 Hsx 02 01 Alpha 1428 S16E09 319 0250 Dai 07 17 Beta 1429 N17E29 ...Continue Reading

March 6, 2012 David E. Steitz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1730 david.steitz@nasa.gov Janet Anderson Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. 256-544-6162 janet.l.anderson@nasa.gov Sami Habchi CFD Research Corporation, Huntsville, Ala. 256-726-4832 sdh@cfrdc.com MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-038 NASA CHIEF TECHNOLOGIST, SPACE TECH HEAD TO VISIT HUNTSVILLE'S CFD RESEARCH CORPORATION WASHINGTON -- NASA Chief Technologist Mason Peck and Space Technology Program Director Michael Gazarik will visit C ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- DUST, SMOKE, AND HAZE (1 updated events, 2 new images) -- DUST OVER THE ARABIAN PENINSULA A dust plume stretched from Yemen to the Persian Gulf in late February 2012. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=77316&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from Mar 04, 2012 (Posted on Mar 06, 2012 9:29 AM) * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=773 ...Continue Reading

Official Space Weather Advisory issued by NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center Boulder, Colorado, USA SPACE WEATHER ADVISORY OUTLOOK #12-12 2012 March 6 at 9:10 a.m. MST (2012 March 6 1610 UTC) **** SPACE WEATHER OUTLOOK **** Summary For February 27-March 4 Category R1 (Minor) radio blackouts were observed on 02 and 04 <arch due to flare activity from active sunspot Region 1429. A G1 (Minor) geomagnetic storm occurred on 27 February due to a CME passage associated with a filament eruption observed o ...Continue Reading

Mar. 6, 2012 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-072 NASA TO RELEASE NEW WOMEN@NASA VIDEOS IN CELEBRATION OF WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH WASHINGTON -- NASA will release new Women@NASA video interviews at the Women, Aerospace and Innovation event on March 8. The event will take place at the George Washington University's Jack Morton Auditorium and Marvin Center in Washington, D.C., from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. EST. The Women@NASA website sh ...Continue Reading